http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ ... story.htmlSkipjack wrote:Allegedly there were over 100 of the worlds leading HIV researchers on that plane. This could potentially throw back HIV research by decades. I bet there is a conspiracy theory hiding in that sad fact too... puts tin foil hat on.
Either way, this is a major clusterfuck and I think that Russia would do a good job by distancing itself as far as possible from this from now on (as they should have done already by now).
So should the US, btw. This is an internal matter for the Ukraine to sort out.
Man, what a mess!
Estimates unconfirmed so far:
But conference organizers said they have only been able to confirm seven names.
“We have been working hard to try and confirm how many people were on the flight. We’ve been speaking to a number of different authorities, and we think the actual number is much smaller,” said Chris Beyrer, who will take over the presidency of the International AIDS Society at the end of the global conference next week.
Their efforts have been complicated by the fact that the airline has not released a passenger manifest so they have been relying on information from colleagues, friends, family members and authorities from various countries. He said that while there may be some people who were on the flight and headed to the conference that they do not know about, it appears that the numbers are “an order of magnitude smaller than what has been reported.”
